It can be pretty tough to manage relationships online, particularly with all the white noise pouring in from all over the place. It’s all to easy to forget details about a particular contact; all too easy to lose a sense of context within your communications. Nowhere is this more true than within the medium of [...]
I actually quite enjoy what Google’s done with Gmail. It is, hands down, my favorite mail client, and beats the pants off of Outlook-Hotmail and…well, pretty much every other mail service out there. That isn’t to say I feel that it’s perfect. There’s actually a wide array of different ways that I feel that Gmail [...]
A lot of people don’t lend enough credit to video games. There’s some downright incredible music to be found floating about, even from the hobby’s nascent stages. Even more so now that gaming’s become big business and developers have started bringing in big-name composers. In many cases, the music is actually the best part. I’m [...]
As some of you may already be aware, last week Google decided to launch a new pilot project for its users, a service which it bills as the natural next step in its YouTube Partner Program. A number of select partners now have the ability to offer paid subscriptions to its users. This announcement isn’t [...]
Pretty much my favorite thing about PC gaming can be boiled down to a single word: customization. There exists a great many dedicated, talented hobbyists and amateur designers out there who, given the proper tools, can cobble together some downright incredible experiences. A few of the video game mods I’ve played were actually better than [...]
There’s actually quite a bit more to Windows 7 than a lot of users seem to realize. This is actually somewhat surprising, given how long the operating system has been on the market – and given the fact that Microsoft has already (perhaps mistakenly) moved on to pimping Windows 8. Given that many of us [...]
I don’t think I’d be exaggerating if I were to refer to Twitter as my favorite social network. It’s a downright incredible platform, and an excellent means of communication. As an added bonus, it’s all this without the rather disconcerting privacy concerns of Facebook. It’s where I go to get most of my news on [...]
There’s so much content floating around the Internet, it’s incredibly easy to feel like one’s drowning under it all, to feel like one’s gotten lost in the constant, continual surge of information. It’s not even how much data we’re processing, so much as it is the wide array of sources we’re processing all of it [...]
Smartphones have caught on to such a degree in recent years, it’s unusual to come across someone who doesn’t own one, and downright odd if said person doesn’t at least have a cell phone. In many of these venues, having the device set to full ring would not only be socially inept, it would be [...]
Occasionally, when I’m out and about, I’ll try to make a phone call or send a text message, only to find that my cell phone reception is so far in the toilet that it’s probably already arrived at a nearby water treatment plant. While I’d certainly love to say my cell phone provider is one [...]
Windows Explorer isn’t a terrible platform for file management, but it’s certainly not one of the best. I mean, it works well enough if you’re just trying to organize a few documents and folders on your hard drive, even if every iteration does have a few faults. Once you start getting into larger quantities of [...]
I’m sure many of you still remember the rather absurd lawsuit that Apple brought to bear against Samsung. Apparently, they were concerned that the consumer was having trouble discerning the difference between a drawn-out patent battle where Apple claimed that Samsung ripped off a whole host of features from its market-leading iPad, up to and [...]
Online privacy is something that some pay attention to, others are paranoid about, while the majority don’t give it much thought. Part of the reason for the latter is the sheer complexity of ensuring it (or seemingly so). That’s where Priveazy comes in. Priveazy is a Chrome Extension which is made up of three separate [...]
As I’ve said time and again, we’re not exactly living in an era where user privacy is particularly valued or respected – at least in the Western world. No user has as much control over their personal information (and who can access it) as they should, and in most cases, the terms of service with [...]
One tool I use quite frequently in my freelance work is Microsoft Word. And, Word introduces a fair amount of writing distractions just by way of the interface. The problem, I think, lies with all the bells and whistles Microsoft has apparently insisted on jamming into their product. So much of it just seems so [...]
